The Irish standard., 1887-02-19
THE Will OF POPE Plus TX.
4 Document Of Exceptional Interest
Now Published For the
First Time.
THE WILL CONSISTED OF ELEVEN
Autograph Documents, Which Were Found
After the Pope's Death in One Of the
Drawers of His Private Desk.

the book Ell Conclave di Leone Kill"
by r. de Cesare (Simmaco) there is one
of exceptional interest, being the au-
thentic text of the long will of Plus
TX, now published for the first time.
1.-The will was read at one o'clock at
night. 'says Signor de Cesare, ''in the
reception room of the Secretary of State,
before the relations of Pho Mono, who
had been summoned by the Pope's
Chancellor. Monsignore Pericoli was
charged with the reading of the will, of
which a copy was given to each of the
heirs. The will consisted Of eleven au-
tograph documents, which were found
after the Pope's death in one Of the
drawers of his private desk. The first
document, bound with yellow and
white silken ribbon, and sealed with
the Pope's seal in req sealing-wax, was
written on seven pages, and ran as fol-
lows:
LAST WILL:
In the name of the Holy Trinity.
I recommend my soul to the Holy
Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
three persons and one God. I suppli-
cate Maria Santissima, ever immacu-
late, her spouse. st. Joseph. the Saints
Peter and Paul, St. Michael Archangel,
st, Luigi Coinage, my patron saints,
and all my protectors and advocates, to
assist me in the grand passage from
time to eternity as they have assisted
and protected me during the course of
my life. My body, being dead, shall
be buried in the Church of st. Lorenzo,
fuori mura, and precisely under the
small arch opposite the so-called graf
ing or stone on which are still seen the
stains produced by the martyrdom of
the illustrous saint. The expense of
the monument shall not exceed the sum
of 400 scudi. Outside the modest mon
ument shall be sculptured tiara and
the keys; then an epigraph conceived in
the following terms: Ossa ct cineres
Phi p. TX. Sum Pont. vixit amin
Pontiicatu ann.-Ora pro 60. The coat
of arms shall be skull. Having pro-
vided for and established the use and
application to be made of the estates
acquired at my expense in Sinigaglia by
the decree of June, 1873, 1 dispose of
that property which shall be found at
my death. Ipray God to protect and
preserve those estates that are destined
to pious uses. So far as depends on me
repeat that as to my estates of Sinig-
aglia, which I have designed for the
Pious House of Retreat and the gymna-
SUM of the said city, by the decree of
1st September, 1856, and Goth April,
1877, besides the chirograph of the 24th
of May, of the same year, 1 will and in
tend that what I haye declared in the
other decree of the 1st June, 1873, shall
be observed according to the resolving
conditions, caducity and rights of re-
version in the cases contemplated by
the said decree, which declaration con-
firm by this, our present testament, as
the expression of our last will, ordering
and enjoining our heirs and others NOM
mated in our decree; and, also, in case
these do not do it, praying any one who
has the Office and interest to attend to
it's diljgent and rigorous observance. 1
leave my library to the Seminary Ro-
mano-Pio. The smaller library, COM
posed in great part of ascetic books, to